South Bay kids already use more than the rest of CA. This will get worse.
Thank you to Dr. Aaron Weiner. These slides below are from a presentation Dr. Weiner gave about the importanct of local control in preventing youth use.
Smart Colorado/One Chance to Grow Up were the first organizations in their state to fight for guardrails to protect children from the commercialization and normalization of marijuana in their state. They are a few years ahead of California.
See their 2020 data about where things are today.
Eight years after Colorado voters agreed to regulate marijuana similar to alcohol, the state faces numerous concerning measures of use, including:
• Rising frequency of marijuana use by youth, especially those using it daily or nearly daily.
• A persisting shift by high schoolers away from smoking marijuana to using radically new THC products with exponentially higher potency.
• Statistically significant increases across the state in youth use of edibles and dabbing ultra-potent THC concentrates in 2017 and dabbing and vaping in 2019.
California’s lack of protection for its citizens makes legal marijuana dangerous for Hermosa Beach
• Kids obtaining and using the dangerous new products produced by the regulated market.
• Almost double the national rate for daily marijuana use among young adults who were in middle and high school when legalization occurred. Although detailed surveying techniques vary by state, data show some of the same concerning trends in Colorado are playing out in Oregon and Washington, two other early-adopting recreational marijuana states.
To read their full report go Here
An improperly marked kid-friendly- lookingTHC treat waa placed where a child could reached it.
Toddler hospitalized after eating cake pop made with cannabis